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Monday, June 28, 2010

My Summer Survival Items

If I think too hard about surviving 11 more weeks of being pregnant, I can get really down, so here are just a few of the items that I am relying heavily on to get me through this HOT, LONG summer...in no particular order...

My heating pad...I have 7 little words to say to you, O heating pad..."I love you, sweet, relief-bringing pad!" I don't know what I would do with out this baby. He gets me through the long days and all the back pain!

My 101 pillows. My poor husband has a sliver of the bed left after I get cozy.

Books, books and more books. I have read more books in the last 6 months than I have my WHOLE life!

All I can say if you are not currently cooking with a crock pot WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR??!!! There is nothing that makes me happier than to have a nice, warm, yummy dinner ready for me at dinner time. My brain and body shut down in the evening and I don't know what I would do with you this brilliant cooking contraption.

We just got a new pool for the back yard, and I am LOVING it. The kids don't fight in the pool, they don't make the house a mess when they are in the pool, and I get to sit in a lawn chair under and umbrella and read! What could be better?!

And LAST but not LEAST... My survival Item #1... My man! We just celebrated our 10th year anniversary on the 23rd! He is my support, my cheerleader, my sanity. He lets me sleep in, tells me I am beautiful and completely denies the fact that I am getting old and fat! He makes me laugh and keeps me grounded. He honors his priesthood and leads and directs our home in a peaceful, easy going manner.

When I first saw James at a singles ward in Layton, UT I knew that I knew him. Though I had never met him before I knew his face. I wracked my brain the whole church block trying to remember where I knew him from. As we became friends and started dating I quickly realized that he was my soul mate, my spiritual companion and that I did know him. The spirit bore witness to me that I had known James in the life before this one. I never questioned that I was going to marry him and be his wife.

We married young, I was only 20, but there has never been a day, not even on our hard days, that I have regret starting a life with him.

One wise woman once said that you know you have a good man when he will swim threw shark infested waters to bring you a lemonade. Yup...I got one!

Happy 10th James and here's to a lot more!

**Check out the latest "My kids say the darndest things" on the side for a good laugh and the next post about our fun camping trip**

1 comment:

HAPPY 10th WEDDING ANNIVERSARY!!! It's belated so I had to make sure made my happiness for you two clear :) The pool looks wonderful and I especially like that you get to sit in the shade with a book. How nice :) Crock pots get 2 thumbs up and as for the rest, thank goodness for simple pleasures that ease our struggles! Love you!

My Kids Say the Dardnest Things

Tyler was talking on the phone to his cousin Austin and Austin made a really loud noise and Tyler said,

"Whatever noise you just made was SO loud it sounded like you sent little men with sticks into my ears to bang on my ear drums!"

7-14-2010

Tyler: "Do you know you're cute?"

Malia: "Ya!"

Tyler: "Do you know I love you?"

Malia: "Ya!"

6-27-2010

I have been crocheting a blanket for the new baby and Baily was watching me one day, and this conversation happened.

"Mom, you crochet faster than a chicken!"

"Really!? I have never seen a chicken crochet before Baily, have you?"

"Yes! Once, when I was at the Zoo and I was lost all by myself I saw a chicken crocheting."

"Oh really, and he was crocheting with his feet?"

"Ya, He was crocheting with all of his feet! But he wasn't as fast as you Mom!"

5-2-09

Baily- "How old will I be when I get baptized?"

Me- "Eight."

Baily- "Are you 8?"

Me- "No, I am 29."

Baily- "Wow! I will never be that old!"

5-1-09

I was explaning to Baily how to say her personal prayers. I told her she gets to talk to and tell Heavenly Father anything she wants. Then she said,

Baily- "I can't talk to Him, He isn't here!"

Me- "Just try to picture him in your head as you are talking to him."

Baily- "I just can't do it Mom, Heavenly Father is just too far up there."

We where discussing what everyone wanted to be for halloween, when we got to Baily I said, "And you get to be a tinker! (tinker belle)

Baily- "No...I don't want to be a tinker toy!"

Baily- "Mommy, I want a fruit number" (she meant fruit leather...it took me a while to figure that one out)

Mom -"Tyler, I can't believe you are old enough to start Kindergarten!"

Tyler- "I know! I just learned and learned and learned and learned...it took a long time for it!"

We saw Horton Hears a Who for the first time yesterday and this is what I over heard today as Kylee and Tyler were playing...

Kylee- "Let's play Horton Hears a Who. I get to be Horton." and without even stopping to think Tyler quickwittedly responds,

Tyler-"I get to be 'hears a who'"

We were at the zoo the other day and my sweet, curious Tyler says,

"I always wondered what it would be like to lick a zebra, but remember that time that I licked Alley (our cat)...It was not fun."

It's true...we were getting cat hair off his tongue for days!

Baily and I were sitting on the couch and she looks up at me with her big green eyes and says, "Mom, guess what...Jesus died for us!" Talk about an unbelievable parent moment!

We went to the fish farm and let the kids catch some trout. Kylee caught her first fish and was freaking out as it was wiggling on the line. She was screaming, "It wont stop vibrating!"

Tyler picked his fish up and looked it in the eye and said, "Good bye fish...we will see you at dinner!"

The tooth fairy was 2 days late to pick up Kylee's tooth (oops!) and when she woke up the second morning and there was still a tooth under her bed and no money she said,

Kylee- "Maybe she was arrested from breaking into all of those kids houses."

I put Kylee's plate of food in front of her tonight and after seeing what it was (spaghetti with meat and zucchini in the sauce) she said, "Is that all you can do is make me sicker and sicker!" Guess who had to eat an extra serving of zucchini! I know, I'm mean! Can you say, "Attitude!"

I walked into the living room when I heard Malia hysterically laughing and I said,

"Baily, why is Malia laughing so hard?"

Baily- "I'm sitting on her."

Me- "No Baily! We don't sit on babies!"

Baily- "But she likes it!"

Tyler- "Mommy, how many days are in a week?"

Me- "7"

Tyler- "How many weeks in a year?"

Me-"52"

Tyler "Good Job Mom!"

Tyler- "I was in a play today at Primary, and I got to be Nehi...I mean Lephi..."

Daddy- "If a snake has round eyes it is NOT posionous, and if it has slit eyes like a cat it IS poisonous." Kylee- "So if I see a snake I will pick it up, check its eyes, and if they are slits I will drop it and run!"

Baily- "Mommy, I am so happy now, 'cause I am bigger and I get the potty train!"